Entertaining box-office hit.

Pretty enjoyable movie, moves along well and has some interesting characters. I felt it should have ended sooner (SPOILER WARNING - the bomb explosion should have been the climax with an ending a few minutes thereafter), but I liked the movie overall.

Solid disaster film, one of the first of the 70s cycle. Lancaster and Martin add gravitas to their roles, and supporting players equally fine, especially Hayes (as amusing naughty-girl senior citizen), the always wonderful Stapleton as anxious wife of plane bomber, and incomparable disaster-film staple Kennedy. Seaton wrings maximum suspense and excitement from the scenario; the script occassionally surrenders to cliche, but film ultimately emerges as a superior entertainment.

Old-fashioned disaster thriller built around an all-star cast, fairly moronic script, and an unavoidable accident during the flight of a passenger airliner. A boxoffice hit that paved the way for many lesser disaster flicks (including its many sequels) detailing the reactions of the passengers and crew as they cope with impending doom.

The original. Good when it came out, production quality doesn't hold up.

Not bad.

Dull. The relationships, the lightweight banter, the manufactured emergencies - it's all just so yawn inducing. After watching 'Airplane!' all these movies seem so ridiculous and melodramatic. Watch that instead or 'Air Crash Investigation' for the other end of the spectrum.

Slow to start with all the exposition that's going on in the first half and it plays more like a TV series than like a motion picture. The second half is not too shabby, although the plot is not entirely believable. Performances are mixed with Lancaster, Seberg and Hayes being the best among the cast.

Takes forever to get to the point. After that it's decent but nothing special.

Nothing special. The others get progressively more craptacular